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GRACE

 

There is an incomparable correspond­ence between God and man for their reciprocal perfection. (Treatise on the Love of God, Book 1, Chapter 15)

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A little reed in the hand of grace becomes a mighty staff. (The Spirit of St. François de Sales, XIV, 7)

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We are awake, but have not awakened of ourselves. (Treatise on the Love of God, Book 2, Chapter 10)

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Not only is God in the place where you are, but He is in a very special manner in the depth of your spirit. (Introduction to the Devout Life, Part II, Chapter 2)

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If we do not repulse the grace of holy love, it dilates itself by continual in­crease in our souls. (Treatise on the Love of God, Book 2, Chapter 21)

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The grace of God supplies the void, and where there is less nature there is more grace. (Letters to Persons in Religion, V, 9)

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We must take care that what we do not expect from our strength we do ex­pect from the grace of God. (Letters to Persons in the World, IV, 13)

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One ounce of sanctifying grace is worth more than a hundred pounds of those graces which theologians call "gratuitous," of which the gift of miracles is one. (The Spirit of St. François de Sales, V, 5)

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He who has done you the grace of making the first stroke, will Himself make with you the others; and because His hand is entirely paternal, either will do it insensibly, or if He let you feel it, He will give you the needed constancy and gladness. (Letters to Persons in Religion, IV, 21)

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How can the ardour of love possibly make one desire to be separated from grace, since love is grace itself? (Treatise on the Love of God, Book 10, Chapter 16)

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Spiritual benefits do not inflame us unless we behold the eternal will which destines them for us. (Treatise on the Love of God, Book 12, Chapter 12)

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If you lie to the Holy Ghost, it is no wonder He should refuse His consola­tions. (Introduction to the Devout Life, Part IV, Chapter 14)

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God pours His love no less over one soul, though He loves it with an infinity of others, He loved   that one only. (Treatise on the Love of God, Book 10, Chapter 14)

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Things which God does by a peculiar grace we make too much of an affair of state, and put too much worldly policy into it. (Letters to Persons in Religion, III, 25)

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How often does it happen that we say good things because some good soul gets us the grace to do so! We are like organs, where he who gives the wind really does the whole work and gets no praise for it. (Letters to Persons in Religion, VI, 5)

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When God calls anyone to Christianity He obliges Himself to furnish him with all that is required for being a good Christian. (Letters to Persons in Religion, V, 8)

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Blessed be the wind, whencesoever it comes, that makes us speed to a good port. (Letters to Persons in Religion, IV, 24)

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